The Bold and the Beautiful Performer of the Week: Kimberlin Brown as Sheila Carter

On The Bold and the Beautiful this week, Kimberlin Brown turned Sheila Carter on like a switch, and reminded us why we love both the character and the actress.

Kimberlin Brown on The Bold and the Beautiful

It might be said that picking Kimberlin Brown as The Bold and the Beautiful’s Performer of the Week is an easy choice. For decades, the actress has carried scenes and taken viewers on shocking rides that no one saw coming on both B&B and its sister show, The Young and the Restless. But since Sheila and Deacon (Sean Kanan) fell in love, she’s been relatively low-key in comparison to how we know she can be.

A reformed Sheila is an interesting watch, but not nearly as fun as her true character. And no one can switch between the two in a more entertaining way than Kimberlin Brown. When Poppy (Romy Park) slapped Sheila at Il Giardino, it wasn’t so much of a gasp-type moment that they were about to have a throwdown in broad daylight at Sheila’s place of business, but it was the audacity of Poppy to think she would get away with such a thing.

Sure enough, Kimberlin went from calmly (for Sheila) warning in no uncertain terms that Poppy was about to experience her wrath, to unleashing on her. Poppy’s first slap became the whack heard around the world as Sheila doubled over, her hair hanging across her face. But when Brown masterfully tilted her head just enough, the camera saw a new (or rather, the real) Sheila emerge. In a horror flick, that moment would have been created with special effects and makeup — in fact, we might even be experiencing the Mandela Effect; it would be easy to insist we remember Brown looking up with contact lenses that shoot out fireballs. But no, Brown managed to become that version of Sheila in the blink of an eye all on her own.

And that was when the Performer of the Week moment happened: The face that Brown made as Sheila raised her head and began to laugh maniacally was like a siren to fans, an unspoken announcement that the real Sheila had just been unearthed. And then the expression turned terrifying.

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Poppy looked at her like she had transformed before her very eyes, and wasn’t sure what she’d do next. Nor did we, not because we don’t know what Sheila is capable of, but you just never know how far she’ll go. Sheila flew at the woman she had been empathizing with just weeks ago, attacking her against the bar, and wrestling across the restaurant. The grand-mama bear was defending herself and two generations below her as she shoved cake in Poppy’s face and left her never wanting more. Viewers, on the other hand, can’t get enough, and now that she’s spawned another mini-me of herself, watching Brown flip Sheila from the kindly grandmother to the epic monster is going to be even more entertaining all in itself.

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